Join our berry pie contest!

This oh-so-delicious part of the Li-Berry Music Festival celebrates the annual berry bounty to be found in the Alaskan Interior. Test your pie-making skills to the sound of great music! For more information, contact Nancy Burnham at 457-6668.

The 2011 contest will be held Saturday, August 20, as part of the LiBerry Music Festival in Ester at the Golden Eagle Saloon and the Ida Lane Clausen Gazebo.

Rules:

1. Pies must include berries, and be home-made (no store-bought!) Berries may be those traditionally thought of as berries (such as strawberries or raspberries) or any by the strict botanical definition (such as tomatoes, squash, bananas, citruses, or watermelons). Savory or sweet pies accepted.

2. The entry fee is $2 per pie. Multiple pie submissions by the same cook are perfectly fine.

3. Judges may be bribeable, but no guarantees. Cash bribes will be donated to the library (but you earn brownie points for those! make sure you enter the amount of your bribe on the entry slip so the judges know just how many brownie points to give you).

Note that one judgeship is up for auction, so if you want to be an official pie taster, be prepared with an appetite and some cash! The judgeship will be auctioned early, in time to begin judging, so if you'd like a chance at tasting every pie, show up by 2 pm!

4. Bring pies to the Golden Eagle Saloon at 2pm on Saturday, August 20, and register your entry. Please bring your recipe for inclusion in the Pie Throwdown Cookbook.

5. Award categories will be determined by the judges at the time of the contest. Winners will be announced at the music festival, and fabulous prizes (of course) awarded.

6. Leftover slices will be offered up to the audience for a $5 per slice donation. Top-winning pies may be presented for auction. All proceeds go to benefit the Ester library.

Pie entries in the 2009 contest, held at the Golden Eagle Saloon. Photo by Greta Burkart.

2010 pie contest results

2009 pie contest results

2007 pie contest results

Participants are requested to provide their recipes for the Throwdown Recipes book to raise funds for the library at a future date. Please! The previous years' pies were so good there were only crumbs left when the crowd got through with them (and an enterprising dog snarfed half the blueberry-bacon pie when the winner wasn't looking!)

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